Sweet Home

Original Title:- Suito Homu

Country - Japan

Year of Production - 1989

Run Time - 100 minutes

Genre - Horror

Rating - ??

Director - Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Written by - Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Starring:-

Juzo Itami
Nobuko Miyamoto
Nokko
Shingo Yamashiro
Tsutomu Yamazaki

Synopsis

A group of TV reporters enter a boarded up haunted house...

Review

Mamiya Mansion is boarded up but contains some art pieces that a TV station reporter wants so his family get permission to enter, they are the 1 st people to enter this property in 30 years. They end up having to break-in through one of the windows, they begin to film and nearly get killed by an accident soon as they enter. They do find the picture and the cleaning process starts.

Another picture that captures their attention is of a baby being burned and this fascinates all. Later whilst one of the family is washing her hair she seems to become possessed and goes out to unearth the baby in the grounds, this seems to let an evil spirit loose. The next day all seems fine until they find the baby in a pram (the one that the lady dug up). A little while later shadows begin to form and come alive the movie from this point starts to take shape, similar to Hell house. One of the crew also gets melted in half. You find out more about the history of the house from the local mechanic you met earlier. It seems that a baby crawled in the furnace but was pulled out to late by its mother and since then the mother kidnaps baby (She’s a ghost) and throw them in the furnace to join her own dead baby.

The Mechanic has to fight the poltergeist to get back the reporters daughter but he also gets melted. After a struggle just the women makes it out of the house but she returns with the coffin of the baby to fight the mother, getting her daughter back and with the help of he daughter they manage to defeat the old women, even the old man turns up at the end.

The quality was quite/very poor but watch-able and at least somebody as gone to the trouble of putting subtitles to this so a great bonus. The movie is only average not a great haunted house movie but watch-able, the sound is quite good along with the effects.

3 out of 5
Review by Haggles (UK)

This movie is very difficult to find on any format, You would probably need to find a collector to get it.

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